How To Repair A Center Drawer Slide

If you lot ever owned a vintage dresser that had wobbly or difficult drawers due to a damaged or loose drawer slide, and so you will enjoy today'southward post!

I of the biggest challenges with vintage dressers are the drawers. With lots of use they habiliment out and while I have shared in the by how to install drawer slides on a vintage dresser using metal drawer slides, I wanted to also testify how to preserve that original character of vintage drawer slides.

Vintage dressers usually have one of two kinds of drawer slides: side-mountain or center-mount. Side mountain isn't really 'mounted' at all, but more of forest 'guides' on the sides of the within of the dresser. These guides go on the drawer from wobbling dorsum and forth besides much, but the sides of the drawer carcass wear downward or can swell over time and stick.

The other type of vintage drawer slide is the center-mount. Center mount drawer slides are a little more modern with a wooden drawer slide 'aqueduct' on the underside of each drawer, and the bodily slide is attached to a support piece on the within of the dresser carcass. This type tends to concluding longer and also keeps the drawer from wobbling back and forth when y'all pull it out. This type is also quite easy to repair!

In this video I volition share what you lot can do when a wood drawer slide is damaged or missing, how to make a new slide and attach it properly, and how to fix loose drawer slides.